PRESS & MEDIA

 

Piper Super Cub parked on a remote airstrip in Kenya beside a group of Maasai during Fly4Elephants operations. Silvertone field image showing conservation aviation, community presence, and bush flying in the Maasai Mara ecosystem.

Selected coverage and public documentation

 

Fly4Elephants drew public attention because it was not built as a theoretical conservation concept, but as a working field effort.

From its early operations in Kenya, the project generated interest across print, radio, television, and online media. That coverage documented both the urgency of the poaching crisis and the unusual nature of the response: a self-built, light-aircraft initiative created to support elephant protection through direct aerial presence.

The material collected here serves as part of the public record of that work.

It provides independent documentation of the project’s field activity, the context in which it operated, and the wider attention it received at the time.

Taken together, these reports help place Fly4Elephants in its proper context: not as a concept on paper, but as a real conservation aviation effort tested under difficult conditions in Kenya.

Featured Coverage

The County Weekly

Newspaper feature from The County Weekly about Marcel Romdane and Fly4Elephants, showing a Piper Super Cub flying above an elephant in the Maasai Mara and highlighting aerial patrols for elephant conservation in Kenya.

The County Weekly (Kenya), April/May 2013
Feature on Fly4Elephants, aerial patrol work in the Maasai Mara, and the project’s early conservation visibility in Kenya.

Additional Coverage 

Capital FM Nairobi

Capital FM feature on Marcel Romdane and Fly4Elephants, describing elephant patrol flights in Kenya and showing the founder beside a yellow Piper Super Cub during conservation aviation work in the Maasai Mara.

Capital FM Nairobi, March 2013
Feature on Fly4Elephants, aerial patrol work in the Maasai Mara, and the project’s early public visibility in Kenya.

Aviation Press

Ndege News

 

Ndege News, June–August 2013
Aviation feature documenting Fly4Elephants operations, field conditions, and the practical realities of conservation flying in Kenya.